VMWare VI Toolkit 1.0 Beta (for PowerShell)

By Jesse Hamrick • March 20th, 2008

March 14th 2008, VMWare launches the beta release of the VI Toolkit. I'm actually excited about this release as I manage a large ESX environment with over 100 VMs. The VI Toolkit provides 102 custom cmdlets written for ESX and VirtualCenter. So what can I do with these new cmdlets?

Here are some examples for the VMWare site:

Snapshot all of your virtual machines at once with a script like:

Get-VM | % { New-Snapshot -VM $_ -Name ($_.name + "-current") }

Automate long-running tasks like cloning using a script like:

 foreach ($i in 1..30) { Get-Template "My Template" | New-VM -Name "Clone $i" }

Disconnect connected CD-ROM drives (to enable VMware VMotion, for example) using a script like:

Get-VM | Get-CDDrive |   `                                           
? { $_.ConnectionState.Connected -eq "true" } | `
Set-CDDrive -Connected:$false -Confirm:$false

Documentation provided:   

  • VI API .Net Namespace Reference   
  • VI Toolkit Cmdlets Reference

Documentation location (default install): C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VIToolkitForWindows

Click to Download the VMWare VI Toolkit

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By abu ras said on May 30th, 2012 at 3:57 am

i enter to this page
http://www.powershellpro.com/vmware-vitoolkit/183/

the link of “Click to Download the Vmware VI toolkit ” is not working

thanks

 

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